Quake 3 patch 1.32

Post by **chull** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 4:30 pm

I currently run on a Macintosh running the operating system OSX 10.3.9. I just downloaded the upgrade for Quake 3 and I have installed it but my problem is that the new upgrade just creashes and quits. It originally asked me to point the new upgrade to the original file, which I did, which started the crashing. I went through and deleted all of my old quake 3 files and reinstalled the original install via OS 9 and re-upgraded the game. I now show in my finder that original dates on the original install (back in 2003) and it still just crashes and doesn't ask to re-point to the original file.
Any help on this matter would be really appreciated.
Chris

Post by **Canis** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 4:35 pm

Can you get to a menu at all, does it quit to the finder, or does it crash and make you force-quit it?

Post by **chull** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 4:39 pm

It just quits and wants to send a error message to apple.

Post by **chull** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 4:58 pm

I also tried to copy pak0.pk3 from the disk to my harddrive, but it says it cannot be done because some of the file pak0.pk3 is not "read or written"

Post by **Cynips** » Sat Nov 12, 2005 1:49 am

I had no problem whatsoever copying pak0.pk3 from my Mac Quake III Arena CD to my HD.

Post by **andymac** » Sat Nov 12, 2005 9:35 am

At risk of sounding daft - are you logged into the Mac with administrators privileges (I had a problem with copying the pak0.pk3 file due to this).

Have you repaired & verified disc permissions after removing & reinstalling the software ?

Cheers,

Post by **Canis** » Sat Nov 12, 2005 5:45 pm

In OS X 10.4 you should be able to authorize the replacement of the pak0.pk3 file when it gives you the "not read or writeable" error.

And BTW, I guarantee you these problems are occuring because the pak0.pk3 file is not readable.